Hong Kong's Education Bureau has vindicated biologists - and disappointed creationists - by clarifying its guidelines for teaching biology in secondary schools.rnDebate had been raging since February over the revamped curriculum, to go into effect in September, which "in addition to Darwin's theory" encourages the teaching of "other explanations for evolution and the origins of life". Some scientists worried the clause implied support for creationism and intelligent design, which are already taught in many of Hong Kong's religious schools (see Nature 457,1067; 2009).
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